vexel

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of veksel. alt-of,alternative
    — [Discussing assets of the Russian bank of Kertch.] […] vexels remained in hand […] 2,990 vexels or bills of exchange discounted for 1,412,025 […]
  2. A troublemaker, a person who wants to change things. US,obsolete,rare
    — […] highly sensitized individuals of neurotic tendencies who manifest in their state of unrest a morbid desire to change everything. […] Let us [...] classify such people by combining a Latin and German root and calling the individuals "vexels" (Latin vexare, to shake : German wexeln, to change). Vexels appear in practically every large group of people who are organized for any purpose whatsoever, and they must be reckoned with as a definite psychologic factor[…]

词形变化

vexels plural vexels plural

词源

Coined in the early 1900s by a trustee of Cornell University, from Latin vexō (“shake”) and German wechseln (“change”).
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